The British model who police say was kidnapped in Italy last summer to be auctioned online as a sex slave suffered physical violence – including being drugged and “brutally transported inside a suitcase,” according to Italian investigators.The grim details on the alleged abduction of Chloe Ayling were revealed Wednesday during the trial of 30-year-old Lukasz Pawel Herba, according to the Italian news agency ANSA.

Herba, a Pole who lives part-time in England, was charged with kidnapping Ayling in July after she was lured from London to a fake photo shoot at an abandoned storefront in Milan, according to Italian police.As reported by The Washington Post, Ayling said last summer that her kidnappers were preparing to “auction” her on the dark Web, a part of the internet where user identities are hidden through encryption, allowing them to buy and sell criminal goods. The kidnappers were trying to sell Ayling, 20, on the internet as a sex slave for $300,000, according to Italian police and media accounts. Ayling told Italian investigators at the time that she was drugged, gagged, bound and stuffed into a duffel bag, then transported in the trunk of a car to a remote farmhouse outside Turin. There, she slept with her hands and feet tied to furniture, the investigators said.During Herba’s trial Wednesday, investigators said the model was put under “psychological pressures” during the abduction, ANSA reported.

Herba was arrested July 17, shortly after freeing Ayling and dropping her off at the British consulate in Milan, police said. British and Italian media reported that the kidnappers freed Ayling after learning she was the mother of a 2-year-old boy.

MORBNOTE ; So nice the guy’s got a conscience !!! … If she didn’t have a child tho … Perfectly alright to kidnap , torture , abuse and hold for ransom !!! …

A United Airlines passenger who tried to take her emotional support peacock with her on a cross-country flight has had the bird turned away by the airline because of health and safety concerns.New York City-based photographer and performance artist Ventiko says she bought a ticket for her peacock, Dexter, so he would have his own seat on Sunday’s flight from New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport to Los Angeles.A spokeswoman for Chicago-based United says the peacock didn’t meet guidelines for several reasons, including its size and weight. Spokeswoman Andrea Hiller says the issues had been explained to the passenger three times “before they arrived at the airport.”

Russell, the former police captain, said he would have loved to return for light duty during his nearly three years off, but his superiors never called to offer him that chance.LAPD officials disputed that account, saying they have a policy of contacting employees who are out sick or injured every seven days, and that Russell was contacted at least 84 times.Villegas said Russell should not have needed any special accommodation because “the captain’s job is a desk job. Certainly you can come back to answer phones and respond to emails if you want to.”While it’s unlikely the department would bother pursuing charges years after the fact, Russell’s suggestion that he would’ve returned if contacted “may be evidence of criminal fraud,” Villegas said, because it implies Russell was actually able to work. “He’s suggesting that he’s healed if we would have called him,”

Villegas said.Russell’s time off began when he tore his right biceps reaching for a cooler in his garage before a Super Bowl party in 2012 !!!…

MORBNOTE ; This asshole has a desk job … PLUS !!! ‘ injures himself at home setting up the swillfest that goes on during EVERY Superbowl viewing !…

That wasn’t a work-related injury, but while recovering from surgery the pain spread.“I suddenly start having trouble with my wrists … just out of the blue,” Russell said. He was found to have carpal tunnel syndrome and had additional surgery.After a long stretch recovering from that, he returned to the office only to have the chair collapse beneath him. He wound up on the floor with a reinjured wrist and a newly injured back, Russell said.

This guy’s just a lazy , clumsy asshole that cashed in on a ridiculously unchecked system …

I had to have spinal surgery due to physically working over the course of 30 odd years crawling inside pipe and tanks and lugging steel on shears and machines … Then had to fight the government ( and medical system ) to finally get the surgery to scrape out the mutilated discs , replace them with synthetic ones and hold my bottom 5 vertebrae upright and together ..

That came from REAL work !!! … Not setting up the beer for the Superbowl pissup !!!…

She states , that while ‘ at work ‘ … 16 years ago !!! … Getting paid really good money for peeling her clothes off and engaging in physical sex !!! … ( and don’t give me this ‘ simulated ‘ sex ! … You agreed to have sex for money !!! … ) that Ron was ignoring her ‘ no’s ‘ and therefore ‘ assaulted ‘ her !!! …

Steele claims that she was ‘ assaulted ‘ again when they returned to his apartment. ” This was after so many times of saying no and realizing that wasn’t gonna work ” Steele claims.

Jeremy denies Steele’s allegations , telling Rolling Stone : ” Why would she decide to go to her rapist’s home ? … Give me a f—king break. It is just not true”…

MORBNOTE ; I figure that this is where a judge should be just that … a J-U-D-G-E !!! … Never mind all the lawyer bullshit wrangling of ‘ the letter of the law ‘ … And just step back and take a common sense look at the understanding of the situation …

If I was the presiding judge , I’d just say to her …

” If you felt uncomfortable with the situation , you should have thought out your career plans with greater diligence and chosen something other than the oldest profession on the planet !!! … CASE DISMISSED !!! ” …

Some pageant contestants hit a hump in the road this week … That is, a camel beauty contest in Saudi Arabia disqualified a dozen camels for receiving Botox injections to make them more attractive …

Saudi media reported that a veterinarian was caught performing plastic surgery on the camels a few days before the pageant, according to UAE’s The National. In addition to the injections, the clinic was surgically reducing the size of the animals’ ears to make them appear more delicate.

“They use Botox for the lips, the nose, the upper lips, the lower lips and even the jaw,” Ali Al Mazrouei, a regular at such festivals and the son of a prominent Emirati breeder, told the newspaper. “It makes the head more inflated so when the camel comes it’s like, ‘Oh look at how big that head is. It has big lips, a big nose.’ “

Real money is at stake: About $57 million is awarded to winners of the contests and camel races, The National reports, with more than $31.8 million in prizes for just the pageants.

Amazon, the global e-commerce behemoth, has brought incomparable scale to online retailing. In turn, it has brought incomparable wealth to its founder, Jeff Bezos.As of Monday’s market close, Bezos was worth more than $104 billion, making him the world’s richest person—at least when not factoring in inflation—since Forbes began tracking global wealth 30 years ago. In two years, his net worth has risen by over $50 billion, more than the gross domestic product of Iceland, Belize or Monaco over the same period.

Yet Bezos is not truly the wealthiest person ever, despite numerous reports to the contrary. As just one example, on an inflation-adjusted basis, Bill Gates has previously been worth far more.

In April 1999, for instance, Gates’ net worth eclipsed $100 billion as Microsoft shares topped out at the apex of the dot-com bubble. That fortune would be worth roughly $150 billion in today’s dollars.Gates, who is now worth an estimated $92 billion, would also be far richer if he had not given about $36 billion of Microsoft stock to charity over time, mostly to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the planet’s largest private philanthropic foundation.Bezos’ fortune is nonetheless staggering, and he may well top the list of The World’s Billionaires for the first time when Forbes unveils the 2018 ranking in March. Unless Amazon’s share price unexpectedly collapses, he will have the highest-ever net worth of anyone to appear on the ranks, and by a wide margin.

As of January 2018 Bill is worth 92.1 billion dollars …

For context, here are the top members of Forbes’ list of The World’s Billionaires in each of the last twenty years. Also included are their net worths adjusted for inflation through November 2017, based on the most recent data available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Year Name Net worth Adjusted net worth2017

Bill Gates $86 billion $87 billion 2016

Bill Gates $75 billion $77.7 billion 2015

Bill Gates $79.2 billion $82.7 billion 2014

Bill Gates $76 billion $79.3 billion 2013

Carlos Slim Helú $73 billion $77.4 billion 2012

Carlos Slim Helú $69 billion $74.2 billion 2011

Carlos Slim Helú $74 billion $81.7 billion 2010

Carlos Slim Helú $53.5 billion $60.6 billion 2009

Bill Gates $40 billion $46.4 billion 2008

Warren Buffett $62 billion $71.6 billion 2007

Bill Gates $56 billion $67.3 billion 2006

Bill Gates $50 billion $61.7 billion 2005

Bill Gates $50 billion $63.8 billion 2004

Bill Gates $46 billion $60.6 billion 2003

Bill Gates $40.7 billion $54.5 billion 2002

Bill Gates $52.8 billion $72.8 billion 2001

Bill Gates $58.7 billion $82.2 billion 2000

Bill Gates $60 billion $86.5 billion 1999

Bill Gates $90 billion $134.6 billion 1998

Bill Gates $51 billion $77.6 billion 1997

MORBNOTE ; It’s important to take into account the fact that Bill gave away that 36 billion !!! … Once you get past the first 5 or 6 billionaires on the list the rest of them don’t have that much in the first place !!! …

But let’s face it … ONE billion dollars is a ridiculous amount to even fathom how the Hell you could ‘ practically ‘ spend it !!! …

A women’s-only, clothing-optional spa in Toronto is being accused of transphobia after a customer trying to book a service said she was told their inclusion policy won’t allow “male genitalia.” Vi King tweeted about Body Blitz spa, which calls itself a single-sex facility, on June 9: “Tried to book an appointment for my wife @bodyblitzspa womens only spa was told theyre trans inclusion policy wont (sic) allow ‘male genitalia.’” The tweet triggered a wave of negative feedback on the spa’s social media accounts, including one that read: “I will no longer be coming here. A place where my trans women friends are not welcome, is not a place for me.”

MORBNOTE ; I just don’t see the justification , angst and vehement of attitude that these people that spout this ABSOLUTE LOAD OF BALLS !!! figure they have anything worth other human beings listening to !!! …